Category: Top stories
Top 10 Twitter spin-off applications and services
Have you got the Twitter bug yet? The ‘micro-blogging’ platform is taking the Web 2.0 world by storm, as Techscape explained last week.
Second Life gets its brands mapped
By now, you’ll know all about the way big brands are setting up shop within Second Life, to do some virtual marketing. But did you know how to find them?
Video Preview: Sony T100 Cyber-shot digital camera
Crumbs. Sony’s only gone and taken all its whizzy digital camera technology, and crammed it all into one well-proportioned Cyber-shot cam. Eight megapixels, 5x optical zoom, and facial recognition tech make it a powerful device, while its ability to store shots in HD means they won’t look rubbish when you bore delight friends with a slideshow on your big-screen telly.
Video review: Sony Ericsson W880i walkman phone
Sony Ericsson's new W880i is the latest Walkman phone, and it's pretty damn slinky. It's the slimmest music phone they've released yet, has a lovely big memory card bundled with it, and features the company's own Track ID service to identify tunes.
EMI goes DRM-free with Apple, but will other record labels follow suit?
Hurrah. So, EMI has announced plans to sell its entire music and video catalogue on iTunes without any DRM protection, from May. I'm assuming this isn't just an Apple thing either, as fellow online music retailer 7digital has already announced…
Interview: PKR's Jez San on blending online poker with The Sims
PKR.com has been described as a mixture of online poker and The Sims, which is as good a reference point as any. It’s a real-money online poker site, except instead of a top-down view with thumbnail cartoons to represent the…
Video Review: iRobot Roomba XE robot vacuum cleaner
I'm still convinced that the nefarious brains behind the current generation of robot vacuum cleaners are trying to sneak them into our homes, ready to enslave humanity at a moment's notice. Or just revolt by making our carpets a bit dusty and sucking up the cat's tail, at least.
Video Preview: Sony BDP-1SE Blu-ray player
Sony has been showing off a stack of new products in Rhodes this week, while also expressing the view that PS3 is so simple, even monkeys could use it. Among the gadgets on display is Sony’s new BDP-1SE Blu-ray player, complete with its swanky 24p True Cinema mode, for showing movies as God (well, the director, which in Hollywood is the same thing) intended.
Why I don't want to Complete My Albums on iTunes
Okay, so Apple has announced its new Complete My Album feature for iTunes, which lets you buy albums that you've previously purchased individual tracks from, without having to pay for those songs again. It effectively takes 79p off the price of the full album for every track that you've already bought…
Web 2.0 site of the day: Twitter
Does anyone really need a new way to communicate electronically with friends? After all, we’ve got email, instant messaging, voice-over-IP, virtual worlds and text messaging, which should be enough to keep up.
